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alex-archimbo.bsky.social
Writer, hopeless optimist, lover of pigeons, gardener and family man.
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… Carlos Castaneda - The Teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui Way of Knowledge Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus David Chariandy - Brother Vancouver in the Seventies; Photos from a decade that changed the city - Kate Bird ed. …

Now back to the list, because life goes on… … The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy (essays) Frank Zimmerman - The Inner World of Qohelet Jen Neale - Land Mammals and Sea Creatures George Saunders - Lincoln on the Bardo …

My fantastic publisher (and publisher of so damn many wonderful books of poetry, fiction, memoir, etc) just joined Bluesky! Welcome @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

Times are such that if I listen to music, I wind up thinking about politics, so to quiet my mind I listen to non-stop politics podcasts.

look Ma, my book made it into the Atlantic!

… Two Generals - graphic novel by Scott Chantler Euclid’s Orchard - essays by Theresa Kishkan The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy - essays …

… Choosing the War and the Hurricane - Paul Beatty & Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation Guy Delisle - More Bad Parenting Advice Thomas Bernhardt - Extinction Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung - Homes, A Refugee Story …

… Dave Egger’s - The Monk of Mohka Wioletta Greg - Swallowing Mercury A Flag on the Island - stories by V.S. Naipaul Haruki Murakami - Colorless Tsukuru & His Years of Pilgrimage …

… Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell The Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca, by Ian Gibson Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje …

… 50th Anniversary Issue of the Paris Review (2003) Selected Poems of Frederico Garcia Lorca Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion …

… The City is a Rising Tide by Rebecca Lee All Said and Done by Simone de Beauvoir (autobiography) 18 Stories by Heinrich Boll …

… Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, by Kate Evans (graphic novel) Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami (short stories) 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff …

… Body Music, by Julie Maroh (graphic novel) Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut The Closed Circle, by Jonathan Coe …

… Rotter’s Club, by Jonathan Coe …

I will now list books at random. These are not my favourite books, just books I have read, at one time or another…